新型基于分层多假设跟踪的冠脉骨架提取算法

朱文博; 李彬; 田联房; 陈侃; 鲍盈含

doi:10.3724/SP.J.1004.2014.01783

新型基于分层多假设跟踪的冠脉骨架提取算法

doi: 10.3724/SP.J.1004.2014.01783

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华南理工大学自动化科学与工程学院广州 510641

基金项目:

国家自然科学基金（61305038，61273249），广东省自然科学基金（S2012010009886，S2011010005811），中央高校基本科研业务费重点项目（2013ZZ045），自主系统与网络控制教育部重点实验室资助

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作者简介:
朱文博华南理工大学自动化科学与工程学院博士研究生.主要研究方向为医学图像处理与模式识别.E-mail：moonkeeper86@126.com

通讯作者:
李彬博士，华南理工大学自动化科学与工程学院副教授.主要研究方向为医学图像处理与模式识别.E-mail：binlee@scut.edu.cn

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出版历程
- 收稿日期: 2013-06-27
- 修回日期: 2014-02-20
- 刊出日期: 2014-08-20

A New Coronary Artery Skeleton Extraction Method Based on Layered Multiple Hypothesis Tracking

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School of Automation Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510641

Funds:

Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (61305038, 61273249), Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province (S2012010009886, S2011010005811), the Fundamental Research Fund for the Central Universities (2013ZZ045), and The Key Laboratory of Autonomous Systems and Network Control of Ministry of Education

摘要

摘要: 为解决大多数脉管骨架提取算法中存在的运算复杂、准确率低以及无法同步获取脉管半径问题，提出了一种新型基于分层多假设跟踪的冠脉骨架提取算法. 首先，提出改进局部形状分析方法用于冠脉预分割，通过引入单连通约束和体积约束和降低非血管型结构及细小类血管型结构误分割率；其次，定义新的中心检测能量函数，增强骨架定位能力，并提出分层多假设策略，避免跟踪过程产生局部最优解和实现脉管半径同步获取；此外，通过生成水平集图，使算法可根据脉管树分支情况自动初始化多条跟踪路径，具有较好的拓扑适应性. 实验表明，与其他骨架提取算法相比，该算法可以同步获取冠脉骨架及半径等信息，且结果精度较高.
- 骨架提取 /
- 三维冠脉分割 /
- 局部形状分析 /
- 多假设跟踪 /
- 心脏图像
Abstract: To address the most common problems such as high computational complexity, low extraction accuracy and having difficulty capturing skeleton points and radius simultaneously, a new coronary skeleton extraction method based on layered multiple hypothesis tracking is proposed. First, the improved local shape analysis (ILSA) method is proposed for coronary artery pre-segmentation. Through introducing simply connected and volume constraints, segmentation error rate caused by non-vascular structures and tiny vascular-like structures can be reduced. Secondly, a new medialness measuring energy function (MMEF) is defined to enhance the skeleton point positioning performance. A layered multiple hypothesis tracking (LMHT) strategy is proposed to avoid locally optimal results and obtain vessel radius simultaneously. Additionally, by the level-set graph, multiple tracking paths can be adaptively initialized with better topological flexibility. Experimental analysis shows that compared with other methods, the proposed algorithm can obtain better skeleton extraction performance.
- Skeleton extraction /
- 3D coronary artery segmentation /
- local shape analysis /
- multiple hypothesis tracking /
- cardiac image

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